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We are employing tons of Chinese, who are now challenging us militarily. Cheap imports are killing us and draining our wealth. Cheap imports cost us when we buy them and again when we pay to support all the unemployed Americans, and again when we pay extra because those Americans didn't contribute their share of taxes.
Yes, it’s bad and probably won’t be getting any better for many years! Blame whoever you want, but it will not help nor get better for many years.
Please disregard that last post, was replying to two threads at once.
What I intended to post here was that the methodology the BLS uses to calculate the unemployment rate has gone through quite a number of revisions over the years, and is not really reflective of reality - much like the CPI.
If we used the same metrics to gauge inflation and unemployment as we did during Carter’s administration, today’s “misery index” would have made it well beyond 30.
socialist democrats 2016: buying your votes with the wealth we’ve confiscated from others, and taking all the credit for’it
This was reported on FNC where they said this includes homes where both people are retired.
The unemployment rates during the Great Depression
1929 - 3.2%
1930 - 8.9%
1931 -16.3%
1932 -24.1%
1933 -24.9%
1934 -21.7%
1935 -20.1%
1936 - 16.9%
1937 - 14.3%
1938 - 19.0%
1939 - 17.2%
We no longer have soup lines, we have EBT cards and 99 months of extended unemployment followed by enrolling for Social Security Disability benefits after the 99 months of unemployment runs out.
All paid for by borrowing 50 cents for every dollar the government spends.
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What part of that 20% not working is simply a single or pair of retirees?
No, no, no...
You just don’t understand. This allows them more quality family time, without being burdened by the curse of a job!
GET WITH THE NEWEST NEWSPEAK, will ya?
Those crappy numbers the Obama regime releases on Fun With Numbers Thursday and Friday don’t mean jack. Just more lies from our government masters.
This is one of those things in which you have to look at the details. It looks like BLS uses “family” as equivalent to “household”, in which case an old single or widowed pensioner is a “family” with no one working. A married couple both retired would be a “family” with no one working even if they use the more narrow definition of a “family” as a household with at least one member besides the householder and related to the householder which the Census Bureau uses.
The latest Census Bureau household survey of just under 81,000 households had over 11,000 families with two members and a householder over 65, suggesting that most of the 20% of households with no one working consist of pensioners and are not something to be distressed about.
All by design, Comrade. All. By. Design.
retirees......
deduct retirees and the number declines
240 million adults.
97 million have a job of any sort.
About 25 million have full-time salaried jobs.
Federal government goes into debt 50% of every dollar spent.
State and local governments are better but still circling the drain.
This is not good.